This Unified light heavyweight championship goes down in primetime at the Hulu Theater Madison Square Garden.
Artur Beterbiev of Russia, will be the favorite tonight against Joe Smith Jr. Beterbiev is the WBC and IBF light heavyweight champion. He has never lost with a 17-0 record, but most impressively, all those fights have come by knockout.
How to Watch Artur Beterbiev vs. Joe Smith Jr. Today:
Match Date: June 18, 2022
Match Time:Â 10 p.m. ET
TV: ESPN, ESPN Deportes
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Joe Smith Jr., of Long Island, NY, shouldn’t be overlooked. He is the WBO champion with a 28-3 record with 22 knockouts. Beterbiev is 37 and has only competed twice since Oct. 2019 and Smith can counter Beterbiev’s powerful punches very well.
This is going to be an all-out slugfest. Smith won the WBO title by defeating Maxim Vlasov in April 2021. Will rust play a factor in this fight, or will it all come down to who hits the hardest? Don’t miss a moment of the action on ESPN Deportes.
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